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The Brownings' Poetry

I'm still working on my poetry project, and I recently finished a couple of books by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. And because my reviews were so short I decide to post them together.

Men
and Women and Other Poems, by Robert Browning

The
majority of the poems in this book are about men and women –
surprisingly enough. Lovers, husbands and wives, former lovers, love
triangles. I thought the psychology behind these poems was
interesting. But the poems themselves? Oh, I don't know . . . they
weren't my favorite.

I enjoyed the shorter poems like The Patriot the most. The
rhythms were engaging and the emotions depicted were skillfully done.

Sonnets
of the Portuguese and Other Love Poems, by Elizabeth Barrett
Browning

These
sonnets were . . . I'm trying to think of an adjective to properly
describe them. Beautiful? They were so well written. And they captured
the feelings of love so well. Heady, poignant and vulnerable, because
all those things are present in a romantic relationship at one point.
But these sonnets also have some very wise and thoughtful things to
say about love.